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Dominick Di Meo
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Dominick Di Meo Hello Max! Tick-Tock 1966 acrylic and synthetic polymer on canvas 22 x 30 inches
Dominick Di Meo Visionary Garden (triptych) 1980s polymer, acrylic and fabric on canvas 72 x 50 inches (each)
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (sky blue) n.d. acrylic, polymer, stickers, graphite, fabric, collage, and shaped elements on canvas 48 x 52 1/4 inches
Dominick Di Meo Elements for a Monument c. 1981 polyform, wire, acrylic and acrylic transfer on wood 13 x 4 x 9 inches
Dominick Di Meo Elements for a Monument c. 1981 polyform, wire, acrylic and acrylic transfer on wood 15 x 4 x 6 inches
Dominick Di Meo Elements for a Monument c. 1980 polyform and bone on wood 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled c. 1980 polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wire mesh 21 x 12 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Dominick Di Meo Study for ‘A Monument’ #4 1979 Polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wire mesh 9 x 16 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled c. 1979 polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wiremesh 17 x 10 1/2 x 9 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (Study for 'A Moment') c. 1979 polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wiremesh 9 x 17 x 10 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled c. 1978 polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wiremesh 21 x 19 x 3 1/2 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled c. 1978 polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wiremesh 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 inches
Dominick Di Meo Elephant Skin Game 1974 acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 inches
Dominick Di Meo Mirage c. 1974 polyform, polymer, and acrylic on canvas 30 x 24 inches
Dominick Di Meo Commemorative Ground Cover 1973 polyform, polymer and acrylic on canvas 36 x 30 1/2 x 3 inches
Dominick Di Meo Invalid with Mirror 1973 synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 28 x 22 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (face on yellow) c. 1973 synthetics on canvas 50 x 58 inches
Dominick Di Meo Great Head 1973 synthetics on canvas 50 x 58 inches
Dominick Di Meo Myself as Magician 1972 synthetic polymer transfer and charcoal on canvas 22 x 26 inches
Dominick Di Meo Myself/flesyM 1972 synthetic polymer and cordl on canvas 24 x 14 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (moon watch) 1972 acrylic and synthetic polymer on canvas 28 x 22 inches
Dominick Di Meo Hovering 1972 acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 24 x 16 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (elliptical blue) 1971 mixed media on canvas 28 x 36 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (elliptical green) 1971 mixed media on canvas 28 x 36 inches
Dominick Di Meo Personage 1971 synthetic on canvas 58 1/2 x 50 inches
Dominick Di Meo The Bride Revisited (cigars) 1971 synthetic polymer transfer, collage, water stain, and cord on linen 34 x 28 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitle 1971 acrylic, synthetic polymer, and charcoal on linen 30 1/2 x 42 1/4 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (white personage) c. 1970 synthetic on canvas 50 x 56 1/2 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled c. 1970 acrylic, polymer, shaped elements, and tacks on three canvases 18 x 20 x 3 inches
Dominick Di Meo Surprise in the Garden 1970 acrylic, Swedish putty, rope, and sculptural elements mounted on canvas 17 x 13 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (collage sea with man's face on top) 1970 acrylic, synthetic polymer, and collage on canvas 28 1/4 x 20 inches
Dominick Di Meo Startled Personage c. 1968 acrylic, spray paint, and tranfer on canvas 48 x 36 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (yellow background with skull) 1968 acrylic, plastic, and sythetic polymer on wood panel 18 x 12 inches
Dominick Di Meo Portrait of LBJ c. 1967 photomontage and acrylic on canvas 24 1/2 x 23 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (eye and ear and hair on black) 1967 acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 19 x 20 inches
Dominick Di Meo Floating Menace 1967 charcoal and synthetic polymer on canvas 74 x 60 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (crossed leg and breast) 1966 acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 12 x 10 inches
Dominick Di Meo Study for a Monument (1) 1966 acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 12 x 14 inches
Dominick Di Meo Study for a Monument (2) 1966 acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 12 x 14 inches
Dominick Di Meo Study for a Monument (3) 1966 acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 12 x 14 inches
Dominick Di Meo Study for a Monument (4) 1966 acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 12 x 14 inches
Dominick Di Meo Study for a Monument with Cigar 1966 acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas 12 x 14 inches
Dominick Di Meo Torsoe - D 1965-66 acrylic and charcoal on canvas 96 x 49 3/4 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (fan and sunglasses) 1965 synthetic on canvas 36 x 50 inches
Dominick Di Meo Woman by the Sea 1965 oil and synthetic transfer on canvas 61 x 53 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (Little Red Riding Hood) 1965 acrylic and collage on canvas 17 x 30 1/4 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (blue and orange with black figures) 1965 acrylic and synthetic polymer on canvas 74 x 60 inches
Dominick Di Meo Aroused by a Tongue, Venus Turning in Her Dream Stirs the Constellations 1964-65 synthetic and charcoal on canvas 72 x 50 inches
Dominick Di Meo The Somnambulator 1964 oil and synthetic on canvas 50 x 72 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (naked ladies) 1964 synthetic, charcoal, and transfer on canvas 48 x 68 inches
Dominick Di Meo Chase: Real and Imagined 1964 synthetics on canvas 50 x 62 inches
Dominick Di Meo The Soft Torso Breathes 1964 synthetic on canvas 62 x 50 inches
Dominick Di Meo Moon Phase (Harlequinade) 1964 synthetic on canvas 50 x 60 inches
Dominick Di Meo Night 1964 synthetic polymer and synthetic on canvas 50 x 58 inches
Dominick Di Meo A Little Memorial to Julian Griman 1963 graphite, black ink wash, acrylic, acrylic wash, and black pen on paper 26 x 19 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled 1963 graphite on paper 26 x 19 inches
Dominick Di Meo Nighttime with Starfish 1963 plastic and water-based pigment on hemp 20 x 14 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled (numbers creature) c. 1962 graphite rubbing with ink wash on paper 25 x 19 inches
Dominick Di Meo Torso / Landscape 1962 vinyl, sand, and plaster 20 x 14 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled 1962 black ink and graphite on paper 19 x 26 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled 1959 acrylic, plastic wood, and sculptural elements mounted on wood board 25 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 3 inches
Dominick Di Meo Untitled 1950s graphite rubbing on paper 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches
Dominick Di Meo, 1952
BIO
b. 1927
Lives and works in New York City.
An inspiration to subsequent artists, including Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, and Art Green, Dominick Di Meo is one of Chicago’s key transitional figures and an artist of immense power and sensitivity. One of the original members of the so-called Monster Roster, a 1950s group of Chicago artists that included Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Cosmo Campoli, George Cohen, June Leaf, Ted Halkin, and Seymour Rosofsky, Di Meo’s Chicago-era work was ferociously unique and personal.
His early paintings and drawings featured stressed, existentially tormented figures. He was deeply moved by his encounters with the catacombs of Mexico and Rome, and his dark, haunting images began to acquire a set of common icons, which included skulls and disarticulated limbs and bones. By the late ’50s, Di Meo was making reliefs, utilizing papier-mache, plastic, wood, layers of vinyl and plaster. In 1961, Di Meo spent a year in Italy, traveling, living in Florence, and working feverishly on his reliefs.
When he returned to Chicago, he began painting large scale, creating a stunning series of works that combine synthetic polymer and various methods of stenciling. Playful and somewhat lighter in tone, but still possessed of a dark sense of humor, these works were the last Di Meo showed during his tenure in Chicago.